Ortiz -- out today with "barking" hamstrings and the lingering effects of a cold -- is 1st at .332.

Sexy Lips's last two starts (against the Tigers and Yankees) have produced these totals: 12.2 IP, 7 hits, 3 runs, 8 walks and 5 strikeouts. Very nice, except for the walks. He has lowered his season ERA by almost 2.5 runs since the end of April.

Loe gave up one run on two hits in .1 IP out to Boston (16 pitches) back on April 7.

Meanwhile, way back somewhere in our dust cloud: The fourth-place Yankees (a mere 1.5 GA of the cellar) try to avoid the Angels' broom at 1 PM (Lackey/Mussina).

77 comments:

Tim: I was checking our your blog and I agree 100% with your recent comment about Manny in LF:

"He knows the person is going to get a double regardless of whether he hustles to the ball or jogs over, it just looks worse because he's not giving it all. ... His accuracy is incredible when he throws it in, and when he has to hustle he does - and makes some pretty good catches. But I really don't see what the point of him hustling to the ball is when it doesn't make a difference in the end result of the play."

He definitely was hustling last night -- that triple was great, complete with a Pete Rose flying head-first slide!!

Tim: I was checking our your blog and I agree 100% with your recent comment about Manny in LF

Yeah, that was a failed project...I started posting here and my posts were really longwinded, so I decided to make a blog for myself. Also, I was ostracized for mentioning the Patriots so I wanted a place to vent/opine about them as well...and I threw in the Bruins for the sake of it. And designed a crude logo with my amateur photoshop skills. And that was that.

I saw that triple, great slide. And I really think he's capable of winning a gold glove.

McAdam, Projo:"David Ortiz had his 20th double of the season Friday night. Last year, he didn't collect his 20th double until Aug. 11. Ortiz, however, has now gone 15 straight games without a homer, his longest homerless drought since joining the Sox."

What mlb.tv does is show a 30 second commercial prior to everything you load. So, if you load up the Yankees game, you see a 30 second commercial before it takes you to the game. If you then switch to the Indians game, another 30 second commercial. If you load up a condensed game from 2 weeks ago, 30 second commercial.

If they show it during the commercial span, fine, but this is insanity.

This is so disgusting--they're really actung like this game was Game 7 of the World Series, and both teams gave their all in an epic struggle. It was simply the Yanks losing a game to fall 12 out of first. That's all it was, guys. The headlines tomorrow aren't gonna read "Yanks Almost Win Epic Battle of Wills." More like "Yanks Continue To Shit Bed."

By the way, LOOOONG time lurker, first time poster here. Love the blog. Live in the SF area, and am planning to catch a game on 6/5 or 6/6 in OAK. Probably 6/5 assuming the rotation holds, so I can see Dice-K in person.

frenkie: As Joy mentioned a while back, we were something like 8 ahead toward the end of '95. When I read that, I looked back at that season to see that we actually had a 16 game lead that August. I remember that being an awesome summer, but I didn't remember we were that far up.

"Before the Yankees batted in the bottom of the first, an inspirational scene from the movie "Rudy" was shown on the scoreboard. That clip is usually saved for the late innings, when they need a rally."

Probably 6/5 assuming the rotation holds, so I can see Dice-K in person.

you're in for a treat - i saw his 3rd start in MLB (in toronto) and he was awesome. had the meltdown inning (only 2 ER though), but i sat right behind the plate and watched his pitches and it was phenomenal. it sucked that they lost 2-1, but i didnt feel down after that game cause it was a great time and one hell of an experience.